Ducks’ Victory Silences Roar in Chicago : Hockey: Corkum scores twice, adds two assists and Blackhawks fall, 6-2, in a fight-marred game.

“Remember the Roar,” is the slogan for Chicago Stadium’s final season, and the Mighty Ducks said goodby Thursday night by quieting the crowd in the old building with a 6-2 victory over the Blackhawks.

“This was probably the best game our team has played all year,” Coach Ron Wilson said. “To win, 6-2, in Chicago Stadium is an achievement, whether you’re the Montreal Canadiens, the Vancouver Canucks or the Mighty Ducks.”

The Ducks were shut out here last month, 2-0, by Chicago goaltender Ed Belfour, who twice has won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s best. But they exacted their revenge Thursday, becoming only the third team this season to score as many as five goals against him.

After he allowed three of four shots in the second period, the famous roar of a crowd of 17,460 was reduced to sarcastic cheers when he stopped a clearing pass.

Bob Corkum, who recently began centering the first line with wingers Garry Valk and Peter Douris, led the way for the Ducks with a four-point night. Corkum, who tied Terry Yake as the leading scorer with 29 points, scored his 12th and 13th goals of the season and assisted on two others.

The Blackhawks tried to play physical hockey, and the Ducks outdid them. Chicago’s Cam Russell and Tony Horacek earned game misconducts for instigating, and Duck enforcers Todd Ewen and Stu Grimson played their roles in a game that had six fighting and four roughing penalties. Grimson, an ex-Blackhawk, also had an assist.

The only thing the Ducks weren’t acknowledging after the victory is that they’ll never play here again. With the stadium scheduled to close after the NBA season, the Ducks will say only that this is their last regular-season game there.

“I’m hoping we play here in the playoffs,” captain Troy Loney said. “We talked about that today. The way things are shaping up, we could end up playing against them. That would feel great.”

The playoffs are still quite a way off, but the Ducks are one point out of eighth place and the final Western Conference playoff spot.

“If we can just manage a .500 record at home, we can put ourselves in the playoffs with a little luck,” Wilson said.

His team is 11-12 on the road, but only 5-12-2 in home games.

The playoffs are what the Ducks talk about, but perhaps more remarkable is that at the 42-game halfway point, they are 16-24-2--on a precise pace to beat the first-year expansion team record of 31 victories by the Philadelphia Flyers and the Kings in 1967-68, though those teams played only 74 games.

The other thing is, the Ducks will have to beat the Florida Panthers too, who have won 16 after 38 games.

The Ducks trailed, 2-1, after one period. But they stormed back in the second as Belfour faltered. They tied the score, 2-2, only 19 seconds into a power-play on Tim Sweeney’s shot from the middle of the right circle at 9:32.

A bit later, Sweeney picked up a five-minute high-sticking penalty and a game misconduct for cutting defenseman Neil Wilkinson. The Ducks faced five minutes of penalty-killing, and they had killed 59 seconds before Joe Sacco got out on a breakaway, and Eric Weinrich was whistled for hooking.

But with the teams playing four-on-four, Valk beat Belfour cleanly with a slap shot to the glove side at 14:37, with Belfour screened on the play. Less than two minutes later, Corkum scored shorthanded for his second goal of the game, letting loose with a slap shot after crossing the blue line.

Defensemen Bill Houlder and Sean Hill added goals in the third.

“Last year in Buffalo, it really felt like a job,” said Corkum, who started the season as a checking center. “Here, every thing’s positive. The team’s playing really well right now. I got a good start and scored some goals in the first 13 or 14 games and started believing in myself and started shooting a little bit more.”

Duck Notes

Accusations by Duck Coach Ron Wilson and five other NHL teams that San Jose goaltender Arturs Irbe was playing with illegal pads were dismissed after Irbe’s pads were checked last month. “They were measured and they complied,” said Brian Burke, NHL senior vice president and director of hockey operations. Wilson accused Florida’s John Vanbiesbrouck of cheating last week, saying after a 4-2 loss to the Panthers that he believed Vanbiesbrouck’s pads were wider than the regulation 12 inches. Burke said this week he hadn’t received any complaints about Vanbiesbrouck. Added Burke: “I suggest if he (Wilson) has criticisms he bring them to the league and not to the media.” . . . . Right wing Steven King missed a second consecutive game with a sore back and was replaced by Patrik Carnback.